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HANSARDNHS UpdateThe noble Lord is right: we are concerned about the pay, conditions, career prospects and retention of care workers. I have spoken about this in detail in debates on social care,…22 Jul 2021HANSARDCalorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021My Lords, I beg to move that the draft regulations be approved. Two thirds of adults in England are overweight or living with obesity, and one in three children leave primary…22 Jul 2021HANSARDNHS UpdateAs my noble friend will know, I know Dr Jackson extremely well from the old days and heard her story with great regret. I took the story back to the department and played it into…22 Jul 2021HANSARDNHS UpdateMy Lords, we will be accountable for the use of DNR and it is right that the noble Baroness’s specific question should be asked: were any groups disproportionately at the wrong…22 Jul 2021HANSARDNHS UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for highlighting this important development. The cancer drugs fund was a great success, and we are building on it with a substantial…22 Jul 2021HANSARDNHS UpdateMy noble friend gives me an opportunity to raise one of my main ambitions for the health service, which is clearly outlined in the life sciences vision. She is right: we catch too…22 Jul 2021HANSARDCalorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021I thank noble Lords for their participation and thoughtful and moving contributions to today’s debate. As I have said, helping more people to achieve a healthy weight is one of…22 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving me an opportunity to address this issue, and I hope the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, will forgive me for overlooking it in my…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19The noble Lord makes an important and serious point—but could I just address one matter first? The AstraZeneca vaccine has very low efficacy on a single dose against beta—around…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, this is the clinical advice given to us by clinicians. I cannot answer the whole question in the round in this brief session, but a number of considerations include not…21 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Diseases: Future PandemicsMy Lords, my noble friend puts it extremely well. It is exactly that kind of intervention at the front line that can nip infections in the bud, but it is only through…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, I am enormously grateful for the thoughtful and challenging questions from the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton and Lady Brinton. I will start by using a couple of their…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, I have complete sympathy with the noble Baroness about the fast-changing nature of our response to this pandemic. However, as I have said from these Benches before, it…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, the take-up of vaccine will at some point begin to tail off among some demographics. We are redoubling our efforts with our marketing and the availability of the…21 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Diseases: Future PandemicsIt is the case that 75% of all newly infectious diseases come from animals. Diseases such as HIV began when transmitted from an animal to a person. The Ebola, Zika, SARS, MERS and…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19I hear loud and clear the concerns that members of industry and critical services have about isolation of the workforce and the impact that is having on supply chains and the…21 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am grateful for my noble friend’s kind remarks. Her question is extremely complex, and difficult to answer briefly but I will rest on one particular answer. As I said before,…21 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Diseases: Future PandemicsThe noble Lord identifies the threat extremely well indeed. The Department of Health works extremely closely with Defra on this exact point. I pay tribute to both the farming…21 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Diseases: Future PandemicsMy Lords, there is a very large number of initiatives. I emphasise our international efforts to reverse the underlying causes of spillover infections from animals to humans,…21 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Diseases: Future PandemicsMy Lords, the noble Baroness is right that we need to massively increase international capacity for vaccine production. The Government are working on a vaccine strategy that will…21 Jul 2021